Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure… — Lee Kuan Yew
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. — E L Doctorow
No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. — Joshua Prager
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to… — Victor Davis Hanson
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those… — Samuel Johnson
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the… — Luc Sante
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley
I hear music as narrative. — Ajay Naidu
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in… — Jonah Lehrer
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of… — Mark Leyner
If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and… — Max Levchin
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that… — Pranab Mukherjee
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which… — Cynthia Nixon
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the… — Joseph O'Neill
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is… — Meghan O'Rourke
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of… — Kevin Rudd
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability… — Ron Rash
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as… — Dana Spiotta

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